The first table below looks at the demand for CCNP in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCNP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Nottingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Rank 35 28 28
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing CCNP 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.053% 1.351% 0.424%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.00% 11.11% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £294 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -37.83%
All Qualifications
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
30 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 10.53% 12.16% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 6
Average daily rate £350 £350 £312
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £225 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £10.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £22.50 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
CCNP
Nottinghamshire

CCNP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Nottingham CCNP Jobs Demand Trend

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCNP across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham CCNP Daily Rate Trend

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCNP across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham CCNP Hourly Rate Trend

CCNP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing CCNP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CCNP.

1 16 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (81.25%) Cisco
3 11 (68.75%) Firewall
4 9 (56.25%) CheckPoint
5 6 (37.50%) Finance
6 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (31.25%) Juniper
6 5 (31.25%) CCNA
6 5 (31.25%) ITIL
6 5 (31.25%) VPN
7 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (25.00%) Service Management
7 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (25.00%) Wireless
7 4 (25.00%) IPsec
8 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
8 3 (18.75%) BGP
8 3 (18.75%) Internet
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) LAN
8 3 (18.75%) WAN
8 3 (18.75%) SMTP
8 3 (18.75%) HTTP
8 3 (18.75%) Nortel
8 3 (18.75%) F5
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco PIX
9 2 (12.50%) BIG-IP
9 2 (12.50%) FWSM
9 2 (12.50%) DMVPN
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus

CCNP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing CCNP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CCNP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) Wireless
3 4 (25.00%) IPsec
4 3 (18.75%) BGP
4 3 (18.75%) DNS
4 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 3 (18.75%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) SMTP
4 3 (18.75%) HTTP
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (12.50%) FWSM
5 2 (12.50%) DMVPN
5 2 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) BIG-IP
6 1 (6.250%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Service Management
2 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.250%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.250%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 9 (56.25%) CheckPoint
3 5 (31.25%) Juniper
4 3 (18.75%) F5
4 3 (18.75%) Nortel
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (12.50%) Nokia
6 1 (6.250%) Dell
6 1 (6.250%) Avaya
6 1 (6.250%) Websense
6 1 (6.250%) Sourcefire
6 1 (6.250%) SolarWinds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Ideal candidate must have one or more of the Qualifications, and at least the items in the one or more key areas: Qualifications *CCNA *CCNP *CCIE KEY Areas...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013